HIGHWAYS chiefs are backing residents and Westhoughton town councillors to implement traffic calming measures on a trouble spot.

As revealed in Down Your Way, concern is growing about the amount of traffic using Wingates Lane as a "rat run".

Residents have highlighted the dangers of the number of cars they say speed past their homes, using the route as a short cut.

Their campaign for traffic calming measures to be installed along the road has been backed by town councillors.

They passed the message on to Bolton highways chiefs, and the words has come back that something is likely to be done during the next financial year.

Mr Adrian Golland, assistant director, wrote to Westhoughton Town Council leader, Cllr David Wilkinson, telling him: "It is my intention to place Wingates Lane on the list of schemes for consideration for funding when the Local Transport Plan settlement becomes known towards the end of this year."

Bolton councillors on the Development and Infrastructure Policy Development Group will then decide whether the scheme gets the green light.